Carbon tax leaves big polluters better off

By Lenore Taylor, David Wroe
September 6 2012 - 3:00am
Viable ... brown coal generators have collectively gained aproximately $1 billion following the implementation of the carbon pricing scheme.
Viable ... brown coal generators have collectively gained aproximately $1 billion following the implementation of the carbon pricing scheme.

AUSTRALIA'S highest-emitting brown coal electricity generators are between $400 million and $1 billion better off than they would have been if there were no carbon tax, new modelling shows.